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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding John RodeMurders in Praed Street, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Lindley MurrayMurray's GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849we walked into the church which is a good deal painted over, and soon discovered the pictures of Brea. Murray tells us he is not an old master, yet his style appeared to...Susan Horner unknown unknownMurray's guidePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich RichterMuseum von Jean PaulPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842: 'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have read in H. F. C[horley]'s "Music and Manners" the...Mary Russell Mitford H. F. ChorleyMusic and MannersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout.Vernon Lee Albert BazaillasMusique et inconsciencePrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielMusophilusUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'Mary Hutchinson Samuel DanielMusophilus, or a Defence of all LearningPrint: Book
1600-1699'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]MustaphaPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some of 1923 this morning, being headachy again'.Virginia Woolf Beatrice WebbMy ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how ea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday” what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful ...Catherine Austen Thomas MooreMy BirthdayUnknown
1900-1945'I am reading a very thick fiction book, although we have to give them in by Monday. Dangerous!... We had a super day doing nothing! I read the whole time "My Brother Jo...Hilary Spalding Francis Brett YoungMy Brother JonathonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played ever...Joseph Conrad José Raul CapablancaMy Chess Career or Chess FundamentalsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).'Florence Barger Edward CarpenterMy Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Anne Walter FearnMy days of strength: An American woman doctor's fo...Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Sylvanus A. Reynolds Henry Marriage WallisMy dear TwelveManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'


[Hence follow thirteen li...

Joseph Conrad Wilfrid Scawen BluntMy Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Cold day ... angry ... Reading Experiences in Fr-Ge War 1870 by Archibald Forbes.'William Thomas Archibald ForbesMy Experiences of the War Between France and Germa...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.George Eliot [pseud] Margaret OliphantMy faithful JohnnyPrint: Serial / periodical


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